Seller Attention! Phishing websites imitating large international e-commerce platforms appear, Amazon and TikTok suffer

Phishing websites impersonating large e-commerce platforms

AmazonAmazon

Amazon has a lot of users abroad, it can be said to be the largest e-commerce platform, but only a few people use it in Taiwan. Without knowing how Amazon works, or even unsure of its appearance, it is easy for scam groups to use it. make a fake website

We recently found a fake Amazon Amazon e-commerce platform: hxxps://www[.]amazonshoptw[.]com/wap/index[.]php

The URL even uses Amazon to make people who don't know it think this is really a website opened by Amazon

On the customer order screen, there is also an order receiving page with a different style from the general e-commerce platform. Before I log in or register, I see that many people have placed orders. The notification keeps jumping (like a The page shopping site will keep jumping when someone has placed an order)

Trying to make people who come to this site feel that they can really sell it

TikTok Douyin

TikTok launched the TikTok Shop in the UK last year, allowing sellers to open stores and sell things on Douyin. Since then , there have been fake TikTok e-commerce platforms in Taiwan.

This time we found a new phishing website on Douyin e-commerce platform: hxxps://lazada-cn[.]com

The URL of this website is obviously not related to Douyin, but it claims to be TikTok For Business on the website

The editor browsed around on this website and found that although he claims to be TikTok, there are many interfaces and color schemes that are too similar to Taobao. If you want to fake Douyin, should you choose a template (?

How to identify fake e-commerce platforms

1. Check the URL

The quickest first glance of course is to start with the URL, which is usually the first thing you see before entering a website

Generally speaking, when companies choose a domain name, they will choose to use their own brand name or related words as the domain name, and try to simplify the URL as much as possible, so that people can easily remember and query

For example the real Amazon URL is: https://www.amazon.com/

The real TikTok Douyin URL for sellers is not so simple, but you can also see TikTok directly in the URL

This is the cross-border version of the seller's website found by the editor: https://seller.tiktokglobalshop.com/account/welcome

2. The button is inconsistent with the page you go to

The most common flaw in phishing websites is that the button construction is not complete!

After all, his main purpose is to trick you into logging in, nothing else matters, so there will be many buttons that cannot be clicked at all, or take you to an error page, such as 404Not Found or keep returning to the home page, until login page, or simply send you to the real website

For example, there are many brands below the homepage of Amazon's e-commerce phishing website. No matter which one I click, he will directly take me to the real Amazon homepage (China version)

3. If you have any questions, "Add Line" to ask customer service

Large companies usually have their own customer service system, but the customer service on this fake Amazon platform is a Line account?

Contacting with Line is a very common method for fraudulent groups, because here you can't directly hear or see the customer service, only through messages, and Line can register as long as you have a phone number, and with a Line account, he wants to pretend to be a fake. Who only needs to change the photo and name

As shown in the picture, this fake Amazon Line account is an unauthenticated gray shield , and the number of friends is only a few 30 people. If it is really Amazon, how is it possible!

4. The picture is blurry or the size ratio is odd

Many of the photos on the fake website are copied from other websites, so there will be problems with blurred photos

Moreover, the fake website does not pay attention to the brand image and the user's look and feel to the official website. There are often problems that the photos are in strange proportions or the sizes are different and the patterns or texts are cut off.

5. Registration time is too short

It is recommended that you use the website WHOIS , where you can check the information on the establishment of the domain, including the registrant's location, contact email and phone number, etc., but the easiest and fastest way is to directly observe the establishment time of his website

The fraudulent website is taken off the shelf because it is easy to be caught, so it will be a brand new website when it comes out again to deceive people, and the registration time is usually within one year.

Both Amazon and TikTok's phishing websites were founded last month this year , which shows that they are not the real Amazon and TikTok.

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